Item #106334 Health and Disease. Their Laws, with Plain Practical Prescriptions for the People. Benjamin RIDGE.
Health and Disease. Their Laws, with Plain Practical Prescriptions for the People
Health and Disease. Their Laws, with Plain Practical Prescriptions for the People

Health and Disease. Their Laws, with Plain Practical Prescriptions for the People

London, Chapman and Hall, 1859 (second edition)/ 1858.

Octavo, [ii], xxiv, [vi] ('Opinions of the Press' on 'Glossology', another book by the author), 624, 7 ('Opinions of the Press' of the first edition of this book) pages. The second leaf, 'Preface to the Second Edition', is a cancel, unnumbered and stub-mounted.

Extensively blind-decorated cloth lettered in gilt on the spine (now a little marked and sunned); cloth rubbed, with minor wear to the extremities (including a solid nick to the leading edge of the front cover); all edges uncut, with slight damage to some top margins where leaves have been carelessly opened; top portion of eight consecutive leaves a little discoloured (by a spill of some kind?), with a short sealed tear to two of them; early ownership signature (A. Holford); occasional light foxing; minor signs of age and use; overall a very good copy of an early household medical book.

Item #106334

Price (AUD): $250.00

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